I don’t understand why Democrats keep citing things that aren’t the rules. The GOP play by the rules & win—ruthlessly and viciously, but they win. The Democrats keep imagining they win in a game w different rules. They also fail to use the rules they could use to win.
There is no Senators w more constituents should have more say rule!
The Dems COULD “go low” (govt shutdown, impeachment, whatever) to buy time.
They won’t use these rules & will settle for being losers & whine.
There is *no* hypocrisy rule!
The Dems also don’t respect “the will of the people.” If they did, they’d be for Medicare for All, student debt relief and robust state support in & beyond the pandemic.
If the Democrats came out and said “We support taxing Wall Street transactions, support student debt jubilee, will created M4A,” they’d win over a majority of voters in a landslide & activate an activists firewall. But they, too, are playing to a minority.
The Democrats didn't fight with the rules with Garland, either—a two-part failure on Obama's part. 1st, leftists didn't care for Garland so there was little grassroots fight. 2nd, Obama & the Dems had 9 MONTHS they could have raised hell w rules. But they caved!
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I have been getting really angry at liberals lately. I am not wholly sure why, but it has something to do with feeling gaslit when they pretend like verifiable truths aren't true, in (likely vain) the hopes Biden will stay in power because it benefits them, if almost no one else.
It is provably true that 2.5 as many people have died of Covid under Biden than under Trump, even tho the latter had the vaccines & the former did not. And it's true that death by genocide, record homelessness, and this latest ban on gay pride flags happened under Biden.
Liberals pretend like this simply isn't true, or that it doesn't matter. But it is true, so either a) it doesn't matter to them that Biden has done these things or b) they don't think he could control them. But if he can't control it, then c), it doesn't matter who is president.
There is a video of an Israeli drone that is so disturbing, it is worse than the most horrifying, torture porn scene Hollywood could ever imagine. I can't fathom the terror of the last man killed, hunted after seeing his friends blown up, knowing the end is coming. But selfishly—
what I find equally is terrifying is that there isn't an elected Democrat in Washington, or federal spokesperson, who will condemn it. It could be narrated in all its horrors and Matt Miller or Kirby or Jean-Pierre will look bored and say, "Yeah, so what?"
They won't condemn it. They don't mind it. It's coming here! Even liberal San Francisco voters just gave their police department the right to use drones! Every horrifying thing we have seen in Israel, every depraved act of SAW-like torture used on Palestinians, it's coming here.
I've said this a few times these past months: I will never be the same after seeing the tank flattened human, the child without a head, the lynched baby girl hanging from the building, the child turned into soup carried in a plastic bag by their screaming father, the girl
wither her intestines gushing out, that other child without a head, the screams that gave me nigtmares from the first nights of bombing (back when there buildings), the rotting decomposing bodies, the splayed women in the streets who's been shot next to a dead mule, the ziptied
and blindfolded men found inside trash bags, Montaser's swollen eye feeding cats after everyone in his family had been killed (before he was killed), the girl have her leg amulputated by her dad without anesthetic on the dining room table, the screaming wife beating chest
There are a few ways I think queer theory can be helpful in thinking about Aaron Bushnell. This isn't about his sexuality or an abstract thread on philosophy. But as an AIDS and queer studies scholar, I see various stories where queer theory might help some readers. This is one.
First, "family": queer theory developed in the early shadow of AIDS, when LGBTQ ppl have no legal connection to each other. Lovers & friends were often shut out of being able to speak about the deceased, whom they know better than the dead's (often estranged) family of origin.
Queer theory helps us to accept that we do not only have to listen to the family of origin of someone when they die. Other relationships are just as legitimate. Friends, lovers and co-workers are just as valid as narrators of the dead as family of origin.
1. So, I looked up the cop who killed himself and the first person he ever arrested, Tabitha "Tabby" Smith, and the way his memorial page uses cop imagery but doesn't mention he KILLED A WOMAN AND HIMSELF while texting is something to behold...Let's read it closely...
First, notice it says "Upon completing the police academy, he became a deputy sheriff at the Meigs County Sheriff’s Department, where he instantly became part of the family. He truly loved his brothers and sisters in blue." But what's missing here?...
Missing is that HE KILLED HIMSELF & THE FIRST PERSON HE ARRESTED TEXTING WHILE DRIVING! But there's room to say "He also loved sports, especially football (Go Eagles), boating, fishing"—!!!HE DROWNED A WOMAN!—"& the outdoors, but most of all he loved spending time w his family."